The Moon In The Gutter David Goodis

The moon in the gutter takes place in philly on vernon street a neighborhood in terminal despair and goodis makes us feel it walking us through its crack brained shacks two hundred year old houses that are no better than dumps and the loneliest alley where the blood of william kerrigan s sister catherine has left a residual stain on.

The moon in the gutter david goodis. When he returned he lived in a room in his parents home and published pulp novels as inexpensive paperback originals. David goodis 1917 1967 lived and worked in hollywood before returning to his hometown of philadelphia in 1950. The moon in the gutter french. The moon in the gutter 1953 is one of david goodis s many tours of the down and out neighborhoods of his native city of philadelphia.

La lune dans le caniveau is a 1983 french drama film directed by jean jacques beineix it was entered into the 1983 cannes film festival. Although it immediately followed beineix s big commercial success diva and featured two very big stars gérard depardieu and nastassja kinski the moon in the gutter was not well received by critics or audiences and failed. David goodis is commonly ranked in the top tier of noir novelists and the moon in the gutter is commonly ranked among his best work. Five noir novels of the 1940s 50s loa 225.

Dark passage nightfall the burglar the moon in the gutter street of no return library of america noir collection 9781598531480. Among these novels is the moon in the gutter written in 1953 and set in a poor decaying section of philadelphia.